Brian Beatty

This has been a blast to be part of. After years of projects, grants, and papers, it feels like the culmination of a much bigger collaborative effort. I’m grateful for having such extraordinary colleagues, especially @anjgoswami @Imagotaria @EllenCoombs and @akiopteryx !

Like all the other scientists, I’m outta here and off in the big Bluesky bsky.app/profile/vander…

Really cool PhD project being advertised by @Te_Papa and Victoria University of Wellington on deep time evolution of marine mammal feeding ecology, check it out! wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships/c…

New from #RSOS: Comparative functional morphology indicates niche partitioning among sympatric marine #reptiles. Read more: ow.ly/SGCX50ROzzu @davfof @SteveBrusatte

I couldn’t be prouder of Lionel! He is just amazing to work with!!

@emgfitzgerald @museumsvictoria @melbournemuseum Toothy….

Gnarly Miocene odontocete (toothed whale) cranium from Victoria @museumsvictoria @melbournemuseum this #FossilFriday

@lukenweaver @UWGG @nyit @NYITAnatomy It was really great to have you on campus this past week, Luke. I can’t wait to see how the CT work progresses, and look forward to seeing you at SVP

Enjoy some #MesozoicMammals for #FossilFriday — Latest Cretaceous (Lancian) metatherian and multituberculate teeth (@UWGG specimens) from the Lance Fm of the Bighorn Basin. CT scanning this week @nyit @NYITAnatomy w/ Simone Hoffmann #CretaceousBighornProject

🚨New Pub!🚨A new thin sectioning method for observation of higher resolution images in bone histomorphology 🦴🩻by Nakai & Boyde tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

RT @cichlidosaurus: Please share: I’m recruiting a postdoc (2-years) to start in my lab Fall 2024. My lab studies Functional Morphology and…

RT @masayaiijima: Our paper on forelimb EMG patterns in alligators has been published! doi.org/10.1111/joa.14… I thank my coauthor @c_mayer…

RT @FloridaMuseum: Blue holes in the Bahamas were discovered to be a rich source of well-preserved skeletons of extinct species of tortoise…

RT @AnatRecord: Tooth formation in wild boar & domestic pigs reveals fascinating differences! Dentin apposition rates vary across zones. Ro…

RT @AxonsAlex: Wrapping up the week by visualizing the crazy axonal growth of dorsal root ganglia neurons in vitro using the SPY650-FastAc…

RT @ScienceMagazine: In mice, pregnancy results in new neurons that support the recognition of pups, a new Science study finds. The results…

Cool article in @Nature on the fundamentally geological nature of the global biodiversification: "...biodiversity is strongly reliant on landscape dynamics, which ...determine the carrying capacity..." cc: @niles_eldredge @CoelhoPre @Trilolight @svalver nature.com/articles/s4158…

RT @paleoAldo: New paper! Welcome Diaphorocetus ortegai! Yes... another physeteroid from the Chilcatacy Fm., Pisco basin. How many more sp…

@VilleSinkkonen Beautifully done

Why are not all whales dead from cancer? A simple calculation reveals that all other things equal, an animal 1000 times larger than us should be a thousand times more prone to develop cancer. This is not the case. Why? Maths suggests an answer @cmaley royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.109…

@DrPardi Yeah, I’ve seen this before also. Definitely some reactive bone growth, an inflammatory response. It’s really hard to nail down what might have caused this

I'm specifically referring to the spine

Maybe I just haven't stared at enough mastodon scapula (scapulae, scapulas, whatever that's not the point)... but does this look "okay" or is there something funky going on with that bone? This is the @AMNH mount

An intriguing characterization of osteochondrogenic #SmoothMuscleCell in Atherosclerotic lesions ⏬by TXNIP ⏫by BMP2 Contribute to lesion fibrosis, proteoglycan accumulation & calcification w/o modifying lesion burden @CircRes 2023 ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

@EJR_Paleo_MSc @ICMWriter Reminds me of a blog post I did years ago… aquaticamniotes.blogspot.com/2009/06/paleob…

Paleontology is a multi-faceted field of science and acts as an introduction to understanding the evolution of life. Excellent video by @ICMWriter on why we study paleontology and its importance. #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Science #STEM youtu.be/QwnbsmXrqG8?si…